Host small RNAs are big contributors to plant innate immunity

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 465-472

  Padmanabhan, Chellappan ^a   Zhang, Xiaoming ^a   Jin, Hailing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; PLANT RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT DISEASE; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE;

HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MICRORNAS; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 68149141334     PISSN: 13695266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2009.06.005     Document Type: Review

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